Desks Quotes - Page 21

• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Awake

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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• I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mixtures, Terrible, Organized

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much excitement in the office! People were literally coming up from the floor below and peering behind my desk saying; we hear you’re wearing blue jeans and we have to have a look

  Alexander Wang

  Blue, Jeans, People

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• I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

  John Wooden

  Moving, Character, Leader

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• Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

  David Rubenstein

  Money, Years, Risk

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• For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.

  Glen Keane

  Drawing, Joy, Sitting

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• Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

  George Singleton

  Writing, Flames, Ifs

  George Singleton (2008). “Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers”, p.59, Writer's Digest Books

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• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Eye, Two

  'The Waste Land' (1922) pt. 3

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• Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Judging, President

  "Snowden -- facts, fictions and fears" by Michael Hayden, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.

  Venus Williams

  Jobs, Fine, Walks

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• When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

  Jacques Audiard

  Writing, Work Out, Trying

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.

  David Foster Wallace

  Differences, Ships, Nipples

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• Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Knowing, Joy, Letters

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• If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Air

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

  Bruce Mau

  Morning, Tonight, Might

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

  David Allen

  Cutting, Energy, Cobwebs

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Running, Business, Moving

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• Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Kids

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• You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.

  Ted Nugent

  Running, School, Mean

  Ted Nugent (2001). “God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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• For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Heart, Doors

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• I never got to play with Art [ Blakey], but he was kind and spoke to me a number of times. He said, "You know, the people who are working 40 hours a week. Those are the ones who are really paying dues. Sitting at a desk doing the same thing every day. We're really blessed to do what we do."

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Blessed, Play

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• Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

  Warren Buffett

  Toilets, Today, Succeed

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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